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1. Eduardo Peniche, from Kingwood College, has his Battle of Bastogne
journals online. Under what circumstances did Ed write these journals?
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A: Battle of Bastogne . He had been wounded in January, 1945 after the battle and wrote these journals during his long recuperation. |
2. Name three important figures during the Trail of Tears.
A: Trail of Tears Possible answers: President Andrew Jackson, Tennessee Senator Davy Crockett,Principal Chief John Ross, and General Winfield Scott.
3. Name ways in which life in Northern Georgia changed before and then during the Civil War?
A: N Georgia before the war | N Georgia during the Civil War Very good brief articles, descibing life in Georgia during this time period. Great changes for the south.
| 4. Name this famous home. Find a URL which has a tour. See every room - and the grounds. |  |
5. Why were the original bicycles invented with that big front wheel?
A: Cap's Museum - history is one of the sites where you can find out that the original bicycles didn't have chains to multiply the force of the pedaling motion. The pedals were connected directly to the fron wheel. It had to be large for speed. The front wheel got large and larger as designers saw a large wheel takes longer to make one revolution.
In what year did Sarah
Josepha Hale write Mary had a Little Lamb?
A. MendelWeb Time Line says 1823. Considered the first American Mother Goose rhyme.
| 7. Name at least three jazz pianists who made history in the early 20th century. Write the URL where you found this info. |  |
8. I've just been to the Grand Canyon. The view was so awesome. I wonder what the first explorers thought of it!
A. History of Grand Canyon National Park Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas led a group of Spanish explorers to the Grand Canyon in 1540. He wrote that it was too cold to live there. The river bank was impossible to ascend, with rocks bigger than the great tower of Seville. The river at the bottom appeared to be no more than 6 feet wide, and yet the Indians had said it was half a league (1 1/2 miles) across.
9.
What did the
leaders of the "Republic of Texas'" feel gave them justification for their
independence?
A. Myth of Texas Annexation The U.S. Constitution has no provision for annexing a foreign nation, which , at the time of annexation, the Republic of Texas was. The Texas constitution also has no allowance for the dissolution of the Republic of Texas. Thus, the Republic of Texas!
10.
Look at the Social
Security Death Index , what year did President Lyndon Johnson die?
A. JOHNSON, LYNDON 577-60-6128 (DC) b. 27 Aug 1908 d. Jan 1973 lr. 78705 (Austin, Travis, TX)
11. Fill in the blanks for this quotations by American Statesman Benjamin Franklin:
12. What were the resultings Intolerable Acts that England constituted after the Boston Tea Party?
13. Go to the U.S.
Army Chemical Corp Museum and identify this picture.
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Hundreds of chemical warfare gas masks from World War I are at this Alabama museum, including the rare and scary Mickey Mouse model, designed to appeal to children. |
14. Who were the 54th Mass. Volunteer Infantry of the Civil War?
54th Mass. Volunteer Infantry was a major infantry made up of African Americans, an all black troop. At that time officers were white. This is the troop that the movie GLORY was written about.
15. 
What are the first five words of the
Mayflower Compact?
The Mayflower Compact , In the name of God, Amen.
Quiz by Susan Goodwin and Peggy Whitley. | 
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